is the founder and chief executive officer of ALE Co., Ltd.
Career
Lena founded the Japanese space entertainment company, ALE Co.,Ltd in 2011. Prior to ALE, she worked in bond investment and private equity at
Goldman Sachs Japan.
She is also an entrepreneur who founded two companies, an online gaming company and a business consulting company, in the past. She received her Ph.D. in Science from the
University of Tokyo
, abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project by ...
in 2008.
ALE Co.,Ltd.
ALE stands for Astro Live Experiences.
*2001: Lena came up with an idea to create artificial shooting star while watching the Leonid meteor shower during her time as an undergraduate student at the University of Tokyo
*2009: Started working on the artificial shooting star project
*2011: Lena founded ALE Co., Ltd.
*2015: Started full-scale commercialization of artificial shooting star technology
*2019: Launch of first satellite
ALE-1 on 18 January 2019 by an
Epsilon rocket and launch of second satellite ALE-2 on 6 December 2019 by an
Electron
The electron (, or in nuclear reactions) is a subatomic particle with a negative one elementary electric charge. Electrons belong to the first generation of the lepton particle family,
and are generally thought to be elementary partic ...
rocket.
*2023: Premiering in Hiroshima
In 2020 it was published that the first artificial meteor shower would be delayed from 2020 to 2023 (to be conducted by the next satellite ALE-3) due to the malfunction of ALE-2 satellite; apparently also ALE-1 had malfunctioned (due to not being able to produce an artificial meteor shower).
References
External links
ALE Co.,Ltd Official WebsiteShooting Star Challenge
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1979 births
Living people
21st-century Japanese businesswomen
Entertainment industry businesspeople
University of Tokyo alumni